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Teaches French German Spanish in that order. New head of dept. Just finished PhD in language education. Likes cats, chickens, dahlias. Rhymes with lady.
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Hey chaps. Fancy a rant about the AQA dictation mark-scheme? Then you've come to the right place learninglisteninglanguages.blogspot.com/2025/02/dict...

Morning team Sunday! Have a read of this!

I'm going to be away from the laptop for a few days, so this week's blog post is up early. Half-term fun thinking about our own experience of listening to languages we don't fully know. learninglisteninglanguages.blogspot.com/2025/02/gett...

I'm going to be away from the laptop for a few days, so this week's blog post is up early. Half-term fun thinking about our own experience of listening to languages we don't fully know. learninglisteninglanguages.blogspot.com/2025/02/gett...

I know I'm grumpy today but had anyone actually told the NEU how utterly annoying their constant text messages are? It's a rum do when one has to block and report spam from one's own union.

Delighted to announce Jérôme Nogues will be speaking in Oxford on Friday 28th Feb @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social. Come and join us either online or in-person to discuss great ideas for teaching listening skills using AI! bit.ly/ALLOxford2025 #MFLBluesky #LangSky @all4languages.bsky.social

On Friday 14th at 2.05pm, I'm talking about Learning to Listen: errors and processes in KS3 French. Hope to see you there :)

Hey Sunday blue-skiers. I popped this up yesterday and it seems to have gained some traction. Have a read!

@lebbyeyres.bsky.social are you a Stewi family?!

Today’s screencast is about language learning games (17 minutes). youtu.be/-lJ1jfAsRUQ?...

Jérôme! Cate! Robert! Me! A whole afternoon talking about second language listening. What a treat! 😻 Hope to see you there in person or online. @robertwoore.bsky.social @cateh.bsky.social